VA - Dust on The Nettles, British Underground Folk Scene 1967-72 [2015] (3 x CD's)

 

BRITISH UNDERGROUND FOLK

VA - Dust on The Nettles, British Underground Folk Scene 1967-72 [2015] (3 x CD's)

3 CD's of rare forgotten music. This is British Folk Music going psychedelic. 

Dust On The Nettles with 63 tracks and a total running time of just under four hours, examines the metamorphosis that British folk underwent during the late 1960's, when the influence of psychedelia and the counterculture saw the idiom being twisted into all kinds of new and exotic shapes, as the finger-in-the-ear folk clubs of yore were inexorably drawn into a brave new world of Arts Labs, free festivals and the nascent college/university circuit. Our anthology incorporates the various overlapping strands of the underground folk scene: the acid folk experimenters, the folklorists and trad song updaters, the more metaphysical element of the burgeoning singer/songwriter genre, the newly-electric folk rockers, the elemental paganism exemplified by Comus and The Wicker Man, even the early 1970's Jesus music movement that spawned the likes of the sitar-wielding Parchment. Balancing the familiar with the obscure, we feature acknowledged brand leaders like Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band, Pentangle and Steeleye Span alongside acts who made music purely for the local communities that nurtured them: Shide & Acorn on the Isle of Wight, Folkal Point in Bristol, Music Box in Coventry, Chrissie Quayle in Cornwall. We incorporate a large number of recordings that weren't issued at the time, sample impossibly rare albums by the likes of Oberon, Dry Heart and Benjamin Delaney Lion, and feature key recordings from a number of bands who underpinned the thriving live scene of the era. Housed in a clambox featuring a lavishly illustrated and annotated 36-page booklet, the painstakingly-assembled Dust On The Nettles is surely the most comprehensive and wide-ranging anthology to appear thus far of the UK underground hippie folk movement of the late 1960's- early 1970's.

This is an excellent overview of British folk music in all it's permutations in the late 60's - early 70's. Included are traditional folk music, acid-folk, folk-rock, pagan-folk, Christian-folk, and anything else that doesn't quite fit a category. The sound is very good, especially when you consider the various sources and years involved. This set is a benchmark for how it can be done. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Pentangle Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 2:47

02 Magnet Willow's Song 4:44

03 Wight Come All You Travellers 2:37

04 Spirogyra Love Is A Funny Thing 2:11

05 Gary Farr Images Of Passing Clouds 3:51

06 Synanthesia Strangely And Worried Evening 2:48

07 Bob & Carole Pegg Glass Of Water 2:16

08 Vashti Bunyan Winter Is Blue 2:56

09 Comus Winter Is A Coloured Bird 8:00

10 Chrissie Quayle The Seagulls Scream 4:03

11 Clive Palmer Stories Of Jesus 2:44

12 Steve Peregrin Took's Shagrat Amanda 3:13

13 Bridget St.John Curious Crystals Of Unusual Purity 3:59

14 Mark Fry Roses For Columbus 5:18

15 Dando Shaft Till The Morning Comes 1:48

16 Mary-Anne Black Girl 4:34

17 Trees The Garden Of Jane Delawney 4:07

18 Principal Edwards Magic Theatre Weirdsong Of Breaking Through At Last 2:58

19 Oberon Minas Tirith 8:17

20 Paper Bubble Prisoners, Victims, Strangers, Friends 5:14

CD2

01 Gerald Moore Pilgrim 4:25

02 Melton Constable River Lane 3:53

03 Moonkyte Way Out Hermit 4:20

04 Steeleye Span All Things Are Quite Silent 2:37

05 Heron Upon Reflection 2:37

06 Parchment Love Is Come Again 3:43

07 Shelagh McDonald Stargazer 4:11

08 Tony Caro & John There Are No Greater Heroes 3:46

09 Joan Armatrading Visionary Mountains 1:48

10 Tuesday Glow Of The Firelight 2:55

11 Warm Gold Searching For Lambs 2:17

12 Benjamin Delaney Lion Samantha Carol Fragments 4:50

13 Fairport Convention Fotheringay 3:05

14 Frozen Tears You Know What Has To Be 4:05

15 Hunt Lunt & Cunningham Meanwhile Back In The Forest 2:46

16 Incredible String Band First Girl I Loved 4:58

17 The Moths Halfdan's Daughter 2:56

18 Trader Horne The Mutant 2:57

19 Dry Heart Meeting By The Moonlight Mill 5:50

20 Tyrannosaurus Rex Highways (Misty Mist) 1:30

21 Duncan Browne Gabilan 4:05

22 Kevin Coyne Sand All Yellow 5:44

CD3

01 Bill Fay Garden Song (demo version) 3:03

02 C.O.B. Music Of The Ages 3:53

03 Everyone Involved A Song For The System 2:55

04 Country Sun The Colour Is Blue 2:58

05 Wild Country Silent Village 3:52

06 Marc Brierley Welcome To The Citadel 4:36

07 Occasional Word The Evil Venus Tree 3:43

08 Anne Briggs Standing On The Shore 4:33

09 Agincourt Kind Sir 3:01

10 Mick Softley Eagle 4:14

11 Fresh Maggots Rosemary Hill 3:36

12 Music Box The Happy King 4:59

13 Fuchsia Me And My Kite 2:32

14 Sun Also Rises Wizard Shep 5:03

15 Folkal Point Scarborough Fair 3:54

16 Marie Celeste Prisoner 3:28

17 Simon Finn Patrice 2:50

18 Shide & Acorn Girl Of The Cosmos 5:35

19 Chimera Elegy To A Dead King 2:15

20 Beau Silence Returns 3:43

21 Mother Nature Orange Days And Purple Nights 3:58

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